Hi!

I think you are free to implement your data dictionary any complex data structures using LMDB ;-)

Ulrich

>>> Tim Uckun <timuckun@gmail.com> schrieb am 02.12.2016 um 12:26 in Nachricht
<CAGuHJrM2wZt1jZHCqECODvFc699VgRqSMyZr1NJR0xUuxcskjw@mail.gmail.com>:

> I am writing a wrapper for liblmdb and one thing I was able to do was to
> store simple integers and floats as the value into the database.  This
> seems to work pretty well but I am wondering if this is somehow against
> best practice.
>
> One bad thing about this is that when you are doing a seek or a cursor
> operation the code does not know what kind of data is at the record. I have
> some routines to cast them back from the pointers but the user has to know
> what to cast them to. It would be very handy if the MDB_val struct had a
> field for metadata, even if it just a byte.
>
> Anyway I am wondering how much trouble I am getting myself with this
> practice.
>
> Thanks.